KDnuggets Top Blogs and Bloggers in December 2016

In December 2016, KDnuggets published 100 stories which attracted over 400,000 unique visitors to our website. Here are the most popular blogs, winners of Gold and Silver badges.

See the most popular posts at www.kdnuggets.com/news/top-stories.html.

We recognize our best guest bloggers with these badges

• KDnuggets Gold Blogger for Dec 2016 badge, awarded to bloggers who have the most popular (by views) or most shared blog, weekly or monthly.
   
  
• KDnuggets Silver Blogger for Dec 2016 badge, awarded to bloggers who have the 2nd most popular (by views) or 2nd most shared blog weekly, or 2nd / 3rd /4th place in monthly top stories.

Here are the winners, excluding the blogs that already won in the previous months.

For the week of Dec 5 - 11, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: Why Deep Learning is Radically Different From Machine Learning, by Carlos Perez, most shared and 2nd most viewed
• Silver Blog Award: Data Science Trends To Look Out For In 2017, by Andrew Dipper, 2nd most shared

For the week of Dec 12-18, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: 50+ Data Science, Machine Learning Cheat Sheets, updated, by Thuy Pham, most viewed and 2nd most shared
• Gold Blog Award: Data Science, Predictive Analytics Main Developments in 2016 and Key Trends for 2017, by Gregory Piatetsky, most shared
• Silver Blog Award: Bayesian Basics, Explained, by Kevin Gray and Andrew Gelman, 2nd most viewed

For the week of Dec 19-25, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence: Main Developments in 2016 and Key Trends in 2017, by Matthew Mayo, most shared and 2nd most viewed
• Silver Blog Award: 4 Reasons Your Machine Learning Model is Wrong (and How to Fix It), by Bilal Mahmood, 2nd most shared

For the week of Dec 26, 2016 - Jan 1, 2017:

• Gold Blog Award: Game Theory Reveals the Future of Deep Learning, by Carlos Perez, most shared
• Silver Blog Award: A Funny Look at Big Data and Data Science, by Gregory Piatetsky, 2nd most shared

Finally, Gold Blog Award for the month of December 2016:

• 50+ Data Science, Machine Learning Cheat Sheets, updated, by Thuy Pham, most viewed
• Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence: Main Developments in 2016 and Key Trends in 2017, by Matthew Mayo, most shared

Silver Blog winners for December 2016 (all received weekly gold or silver badges):

• Why Deep Learning is Radically Different From Machine Learning, by Carlos Perez
• Bayesian Basics, Explained, by Kevin Gray
• Data Science Trends To Look Out For In 2017, by Andrew Dipper